Old Manual 18-55mm camera lens?

Is there such thing? And i mean manual as in the lens which are quite old, made of metal, have to set eh aperture - that kind of manual? I don't know if they ever made a zoom of 18-55mm (or similar) on those kind of lens? Or are they all just prim lens?

Looking to put on my nikon.

I like the way the feel, and the weight to them, and the way they look too…

The first 18-55 mm lens showed up with entry level dSLR cameras in 2005.

Here is a link to all the manual focus Nikkor lenses

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/zoomsMF/index.htm

18-55mm lenses didn't come in until cropped-sensor DSLRs - a generation after the introduction of autofocus.

I don't know what you're trying to do here, but if you're the same one who asked about MF lenses to fit a D5000, maybe you should take a few photography lessons.

NO MF lens will meter with a D5000, far less autofocus, anything shorter than a 28mm will be ridiculously expensive, and you'll have a gadget-bag full of lenses incapable of making the best use of your camera.

If you want to cut off your photographic right arm, that's your affair - but leave the rest of us out of it.

Not likely. Most lenses back in the day were prime on the wide end of things. Zooms were mostly in the telephoto range and maybe the occasional mid range zoom… But mid range for a 35mm camera is about 28-80mm which wouldn't be very wide on a crop frame camera.

If you wanted to go wider, you generally had to get a prime like 20mm (ultra wide) or 14mm (ultra ultra wide).

Nikon made some lenses that zoom in that range with an aperture ring, though they are plastic autofocus, like the 17-35mm f/2.8.It is a big, heavy, and expensive lens for a crop body camera… Though they did originally design it for the Nikon D1 crop frame camera.